thunderstricken

1. participlepastpast participle of thunderstrike

comparative more thunderstricken · superlative most thunderstricken

1. Thunderstruck.

   The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.

   1831, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, Complete

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   1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 104, […] I sawe straight, Maiesty (sitting in the throne of Beautie) draw foorth such a sworde of iust disdaine, that I remayned as a man thunder-striken; not daring, no not able, to beholde that power.

   If some tremendous apparition from the world of shadows had suddenly presented itself before him, Ralph Nickleby could not have been more thunder-stricken than he was by this surprise.

   1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 54, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 540

   At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable.

   1851, anonymous author, The Book of Enterprise and Adventure

   The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. "

   1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales